Type Private Location Hackensack, NJ, USA Founded 16 April 2007 Ceased operations December 22, 2009 | Active April 16, 2007–2009 Website touromed.touro.edu Affiliation Judaism Dean Paul M. Wallach, M.D | |
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Motto Advancing health care through science, compassion and caring. Headquarters Hackensack, New Jersey, United States Similar Touro University California, Touro College of Osteopat, Touro University Nevada, College of Osteopathic Medicine, University of Pikeville Kentucky | ||
Touro University College of Medicine was a proposed medical school to be based out of Hackensack, New Jersey. Its hospital affiliate was to be Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC). The medical school disbanded in December 2009.
The school was established on April 16, 2007, with Paul M. Wallach, M.D. named as its founding dean. The first proposed location of the school was on the campus of the former Pascack Valley Hospital (PVH) in Westwood, New Jersey, which had closed after declaring bankruptcy in November 2007. HUMC had acquired the PVH property on February 27, 2008, in an auction for $45 million in a joint bid with Touro.
For the school to have become accredited and begin to admit students, it needed to undergo a site visit by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME). This was scheduled a year in advance for a visit in March 2008, but HUMC and Touro did not close on the newly purchased Pascack Valley Hospital property until April 30, 2008. As the LCME requires that potential medical schools own their property, the school could not have been accredited at that time. In September 2008, Touro backed out of their deal with HUMC, proposing instead to open their medical school in Hasbrouck Heights, while HUMC independently opened a satellite emergency department on the Westwood campus, called Hackensack University Medical Center North at Pascack Valley on October 1, 2008.
On December 22, 2009 Touro College announced it had abandoned its plan for the new school choosing instead to purchase the New York Medical College, in Valhalla, New York, for $60 million.
2016 Touro Corporation seeks accreditation to open Touro Dental College in New York using state appropriated grant funding intended to improve higher educational services in New York.